Doe Quote by Minnie Maddern Fiske

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.

— Robert Lepage

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

— John Patrick Shanley

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic…

— Trevor Nunn

In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It's about being imaginative and artistic. That's the priority. It might not be a success,…

— Marianne Elliott

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

— Kate Winslet

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

— Randeep Hooda

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

— Jonathan Freeman

In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all…

— Randy Harrison

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

— Agnes Moorehead